Michael Soutzos
Michael Soutzos | |
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Prince of Moldavia | |
Reign | 12 June 1819 – 29 March 1821 |
Predecessor | Scarlat Callimachi |
Successor | Stolnici Manu and Rizo-Nerulos |
Born | 1778 or 1784 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey) |
Died | 12 June 1864 Athens, Kingdom of Greece (now Athens, Greece) |
House | Soutzos family |
Religion | Orthodox |
Michael Soutzos (
Biography
He was born in
In 1819
In January 1821, he finalized his collaboration with Alexander Ypsilantis[7] and with the invasion of Ypsilantis in Moldova on 22 February, Michael Soutzos-Vodas raised the guard in command of the rebels and paid substantial amounts of money for the needs of the army.[2][8] When after a short time, the movement in Moldova-Wallachia began to ebb, Soutzos forced under the pressure from the boyars, who declared him as downfallen by the time he had help the rebels and had repudiated Ottoman domination, to leave his position in Iași.[9] At first, he moved at Skouleni and then (31 March 1821) in Chișinău of Russian Empire. During the same period the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople excommunicated him and Ypsilantis.[10]
Thereafter, he tried to escape to Switzerland through Austrian Empire but there he was arrested and was imprisoned for almost four years.[2] After his release, he fled first to Italy and then to Switzerland. There, he was hosted in Geneva by the Swiss Philhellene Jean-Gabriel Eynard.[11] During his stay in Europe, he arranged for the collection and distribution of money in favor of the Greek War of Independence and he was in contact with the "Zakynthos Committee" of Dionysios Romas. Before the undertaking of the governance of Greece by Ioannis Kapodistrias, Soutzos was one of the possible candidates to occupy this position.[12]
During Kapodistrias governance, he was appointed as representative of Greece to France, following the recommendation of Eynard. Later, he was appointed by Otto of Greece as Greek ambassador in France, Russian Empire, Sweden and Denmark.[13] In 1839 he moved permanently in Athens and he served until 1840 as Member of the Council of the State while he was one of the first settlers of the old Athenian neighborhood Vathi or Vatheia.[14]
He died on 12 June 1864 in Athens. From his marriage to Roxani, he had three children, Gregorios Soutzos (famous painter of the time), Ioannis Soutzos and Maria Soutzou.
References
- ^ Οι κατά την κηδείαν και το μνημόσυνον του αοιδίμου Μιχαήλ Σούτσου, πρώην Ηγεμόνος της Μολδαυϊας, εκφωνηθέντες επιτάφιοι λόγοι, Εκ του Τυπογραφείου Ν. Γ. Πάσσαρη, Εν Αθήναις, 1864, 6. (Greek)
- ^ a b c d Spyridon M. Theotokis, Αλληλογραφία Ι. Α. Καποδίστρια-Ι. Γ. Εϋνάρδου 1826–1831, Βιβλιοπωλείον Ι. Ν. Σιδέρη, Athens, 1929, p. 458.
- ^ a b Agapitos S. Agapitos, Οι Ένδοξοι Έλληνες του 1821, ή Οι Πρωταγωνισταί της Ελλάδος, Τυπογραφείον Α. Σ. Αγαπητού, Patras, 1877, p. 150. (Greek)
- ^ a b Οι κατά την κηδείαν..., 1864, pp. 6–7.
- ^ Dionisios Kokkinos, Η ελληνική επανάστασις, 1974, vol. 1, p. 243.
- ^ Νέα Εστία, vol. 898, pp. 1696–97.
- ^ Kokkinos, vol. 1, p. 103
- ^ Kokkinos, vol. 1, p. 107–11
- ^ Kokkinos, vol. 1, p. 118.
- ^ Kokkinos, vol. 1, p. 249-251.
- ^ Apostolos Vakalopoulos, Ιστορία του νέου ελληνισμού, vol. 7, p. 497.
- ^ Vakalopoulos, vol. 7, p. 689.
- ^ Οι κατά την κηδείαν..., 1864, p. 14.
- ^ Ελευθεροτυπία: Από Βάθης στο ρέμα της Σταδίου. (Greek)